Example Sentences

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“Napoleon,” Ridley Scott’s clamorously eventful but oddly desultory new epic, wrings its own variation on that idea: Here is a man whose love for a woman fuels and finally destroys his delusions of greatness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Before “Damnation,” Tarr’s films were mainly clamorously claustrophobic kitchen-sink domestic dramas inspired by John Cassavetes.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

The novel’s great theme was how anybody can become evil, but this was lost, he thought, thanks to Kubrick’s chilly directing style and Jack Nicholson’s clamorously manic, gurning performance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2015

Edith wasn’t, like Moore’s Mary Richards, a spirited young professional seeking traction in a mostly male workplace, nor was she like Arthur’s Maude, a brassy, clamorously insistent personality.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2013

Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding